I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKYIt takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.
More Fyodor Dostoevsky Quotes
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool’s paradise.
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Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it.
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This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.
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Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference.
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To love someone means to see them as God intended them.
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A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.
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People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel.
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What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
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The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment.
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I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.
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To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.
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To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
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The soul is healed by being with children.
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Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.
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